Concrete Patios

Concrete Patios in Antioch, IL

Patios, paths and sitting areas poured around Antioch and the Chain of Lakes. Broom through to stamped, with the outline marked on your grass before anything is agreed. Free estimate on site.

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Around here the summer is short enough that the back garden earns its keep in about four months. A patio is what turns those months into somewhere you sit rather than somewhere you look at, and unlike almost everything else you can buy for a house, it needs nothing from you afterwards.

What you get

• A slab sized around your table and chairs, not around a number.
• The finish you chose - broom, exposed aggregate, colour or stamped - with the cost of each one laid next to the others first.
• Connecting paths, tying the gate, the back door and the drive together.
• Steps down where the garden sits below the level of the house.
• More slab, where the patio you already have was always a little tight.

How it works

Why homeowners here call us

• You decide the size standing in it. One outline marked on the grass ends the argument faster than any drawing has ever managed.
• Any paperwork is ours. Garden slabs usually need very little, but if an application or an inspection is required, both are our job rather than yours.
• We pour flatwork and nothing else. Say early if a structure is coming later, because it changes how the slab gets set out.

What a patio week looks like

Nobody tells you this part, and it is generally what people actually want to know before committing a garden to it.

Stage	What is happening
Marking out	At the estimate, on your grass
Digging and base	Turf and soil out, stone in and compacted
Forming	Edges set to the line and the falls
Pour day	Placed and finished inside the day
Joints cut	Soon after, to the layout agreed
Using it	Dates we hand you before we start

Your garden is a working site through the middle of that. A gate stays open, a route across the lawn takes a beating and gets made good afterwards, and a truck wants somewhere to stand. Settling where all of that can and cannot go at the estimate beats discovering it on the morning.

Four lines to hold any bid against

Antioch publishes a slab specification rather than leaving it to whoever happens to be pouring, and that hands you something solid to measure a quote by.

Item	Specified
Slab	Four inches minimum
Base	Compacted CA-6, four inches
Mix	Six bag
Air	Three to six percent

Ask for all four on the paperwork, of us and of everybody else you have out. A quote naming them has been priced against them. One that does not may be perfectly sound, but you have no way of telling, and every item on that list is invisible by the time the job is finished. What each is protecting against is set out in the Antioch patio spec, line by line.

Where we work

Out from Antioch through Lindenhurst and Lake Villa, west to Fox Lake, up to Spring Grove, and east to Old Mill Creek and Winthrop Harbor. Garden work turns far less on which village you are in than a drive does, but ground conditions near the lakes vary street by street, which is the reason we come and look at it.

If you would rather read first

Ours are worked through properly here:

• what a patio costs, finish by finish
• what sits underneath any slab price
• five checks that choose between concrete, pavers and timber

Drive needing doing as well? We quote concrete driveway work on the same trip.